Oscar Arias Sánchez

Nobel Prize Laureate, former President

Costa Rica

Served as president of the Republic of Costa Rica between 1986 and 1990, and again from 2006 to 2010, Costa Rican politician and businessman, and laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for “his service in favor of peace in Central America”. The financial support he received from the prize enabled him to found the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress, a foundation making promotion of democracy, equality in general, disarmament and demilitarization, as its main objectives. He has a doctorate in Political Sciences at the University of Essex, and has been awarded numerous prizes by institutions all around the world.